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authorTetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>2013-07-24 16:44:02 -0400
committerJames Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>2013-07-25 05:30:03 -0400
commit9548906b2bb7ff09e12c013a55d669bef2c8e121 (patch)
treeb75ba2bc69d82c1040cac0ea9113a17b39e82b93 /include/linux/xattr.h
parentbe0306bcc3a0b0725b0f99b06d56a29a6d906b7c (diff)
xattr: Constify ->name member of "struct xattr".
Since everybody sets kstrdup()ed constant string to "struct xattr"->name but nobody modifies "struct xattr"->name , we can omit kstrdup() and its failure checking by constifying ->name member of "struct xattr". Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Reviewed-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> [ocfs2] Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com> Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> Tested-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/xattr.h')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/xattr.h b/include/linux/xattr.h
index fdbafc6841cf..91b0a68d38dc 100644
--- a/include/linux/xattr.h
+++ b/include/linux/xattr.h
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ struct xattr_handler {
31}; 31};
32 32
33struct xattr { 33struct xattr {
34 char *name; 34 const char *name;
35 void *value; 35 void *value;
36 size_t value_len; 36 size_t value_len;
37}; 37};